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  • Calder (2-volume set)Calder (2-volume set)
    Knopf

    Calder (2-volume set)

      Jed Perl Hardcover | 1356 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2017 | 9780307272720 & 9780451494115 Volume I: The Conquest of Time - The Early Years (1898-1940)  Volume II: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years (1940-1976)  Over 350 illustrations, including little-known works and many archival...
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  • The Lives of Lucian Freud (2-volume set)The Lives of Lucian Freud (2-volume set)
    Knopf

    The Lives of Lucian Freud (2-volume set)

    William Feaver Hardcover | 1238 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2019 | 9780525657521 & 9780525657668 Illustrations: 17 colour and 41 b/w Volume I: The Restless Years (1922-1968)  Volume II: Fame (1968-2011) has eight pages of colour images. PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by...
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  • Cosey Fanni Tutti: Re-Sisters - The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti (Non-mint)
    Faber & Faber

    Cosey Fanni Tutti: Re-Sisters - The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti (Non-mint)

    Cosey Fanni Tutti Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm | 400 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571362189 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire,...
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  • Judith Kerr’s Creatures: A Celebration of Her Life and WorkJudith Kerr’s Creatures: A Celebration of Her Life and Work
    Harper Collins

    Judith Kerr’s Creatures: A Celebration of Her Life and Work

    Hardcover | 22.6 x 2.2 x 28.6 cm | 176 pp Harper Collins | 2023 | 9780007513215 A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of 100 years since Judith Kerr’s birth, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Judith...
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  • Renoir: An Intimate BiographyRenoir: An Intimate Biography
    Thames & Hudson

    Renoir: An Intimate Biography

    Barbara Ehrlich White Hardcover | 17.78 x 4.06 x 24.89 cm | 432 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500239575  The joy that permeates Renoir’s paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the multi-faceted...
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  • Debbie Harry: Face ItDebbie Harry: Face It
    Harper Collins

    Debbie Harry: Face It

    Hardcover | 16.2 x 3.1 x 24 cm | 368 pp Harper Collins | 2019 | 9780008229429 Debbie Harry is the international ambassador of New York City cool. Best known as the face of Blondie, Debbie Harry and her cofounder, Chris Stein, brought the...
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  • The Story of Edvard Munch
    Arcadia Books

    The Story of Edvard Munch

    Ketil Bjørnstad Softcover | 13.02 x 2.86 x 20 cm | 416 pp Arcadia Books | 2005 | 9781900850940 A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters based on Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His...
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  • Wendy, Janey, Joanne and Madge: Inspirational Professors of Fashion at the Royal College of Art 1948–2014Wendy, Janey, Joanne and Madge: Inspirational Professors of Fashion at the Royal College of Art 1948–2014
    Unicorn Press

    Wendy, Janey, Joanne and Madge: Inspirational Professors of Fashion at the Royal College of Art 1948–2014

    Henrietta Goodden Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 224 pp Unicorn Press | 2020 | 9781916495777  This is the first biographical study of the women who made the Royal College of Art's School of Fashion a household name. Madge Garland, Janey Ironside,...
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  • Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin (Non-mint)Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin (Non-mint)
    Back Bay

    Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin (Non-mint)

    Softcover | 13.97 x 3.81 x 20.96 cm | 528 pp Back Bay | 2015 | 9780316196819  Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who have...
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  • Simon Napier-Bell: Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom - Lessons from a Dissolute Life
    Unbound

    Simon Napier-Bell: Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom - Lessons from a Dissolute Life

    Simon Napier-Bell Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm | 336 pp Unbound | 2022 | 9781800181892  Simon Napier-Bell has been a composer, songwriter, record producer and author, but he is best known for having managed such artists as the Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan and Wham!. Sour Mouth, Sweet...
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  • Hogarth: Life in ProgressHogarth: Life in Progress
    Profile Books

    Hogarth: Life in Progress

    Jacqueline Riding Softcover | 14 x 3.8 x 20.2 cm | 554 pp Profile Books | 2022 | 9781788163484  On a late spring night in 1732, a boisterous group of friends set out from their local pub. They are beginning a journey, a 'peregrination' that...
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  • Man Enough to Be a Woman: Jayne CountyMan Enough to Be a Woman: Jayne County
    Serpent's Tail

    Man Enough to Be a Woman: Jayne County

    Softcover | 12.9 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm | 272 pp Serpent's Tail | 2021 | 9781788166539 'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up'. Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne County moved to New York and became part of the 60s...
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  • 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams
    Unbound

    42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams

    Hardcover | 21.59 x 3 x 30.48 cm | 336 pp Unbound | 2023 | 9781800182684  When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas’s long-time collaborator Kevin...
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  • Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped BareMarcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare
    Museum Of Fine Arts Boston

    Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare

    Alice Goldfarb Marquis Hardcover | 16.21 x 2.84 x 23.42 cm | 240 pp Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 2002 | 9780878466443 Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare is not the first full-length biography of Duchamp, but it is the first to present him in...
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  • Chuck Close: LifeChuck Close: Life
    Prestel

    Chuck Close: Life

    Christopher Finch Hardcover | 18.5 x 3.5 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Prestel | 2010 | 9783791336770  For decades Chick Close's (1940-2021) larger-than-life and unflinchingly honest paintings of friends and family, and self-portraits have won admiration from a wide audience. Having reinvented portraiture...
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  • An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques DerridaAn Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
    Verso

    An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida

    Peter Salmon Hardcover | 14.58 x 2.44 x 21.64 cm | 320 pp Verso | 2020 | 9781788732802  Who was Jacques Derrida, and why does he have such a towering, and foreboding reputation across modern philosophy? For some he is the source of the crisis...
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  • Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, TinaRemain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
    St. Martin's Press

    Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

    Chris Frantz Hardcover | 16.38 x 3.38 x 24.23 cm | 384 pp St. Martin's Press | 2020 | 9781250209221 One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead...
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  • So It Started There: From Punk to PulpSo It Started There: From Punk to Pulp
    Omnibus Press

    So It Started There: From Punk to Pulp

    Nick Banks Softcover | 15.88 x 3.18 x 23.5 cm | 432 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781915841100  So It Started There chronicles the life and career of drummer Nick Banks, and how he came to be in one of the UK’s most iconic...
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  • The Lionel Bart Story: Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'BeThe Lionel Bart Story: Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be
    Omnibus Press

    The Lionel Bart Story: Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

    David Stafford & Caroline Stafford Hardcover | 24.1 x 2.8 x 16.7 cm | 288 pp Omnibus Press | 2011 | 9781849386616 Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!...
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  • Young Michelangelo: The Path To The SistineYoung Michelangelo: The Path To The Sistine
    Gerald Duckworth & Co

    Young Michelangelo: The Path To The Sistine

    John T. Spike Hardcover | 15.6 x 1.78 x 22.81 cm | 336 pp Gerald Duckworth & Co | 2011 | 9780715640661  This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T....
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